Some of the content we push out through social networks originates as content on our own websites. However, there's a lot of rich content already existing that often gets posted (shared) on Facebook or Twitter (as a re-tweet). Facebook makes it possible to have your Facebook posts automatically tweeted into a specific Twitter account. However, … Continue reading Linking Your Facebook Pages to Twitter Accounts
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Automated Social Network Distribution of Content
A common solution for the social media news distribution workflow is as follows: Setup a website at WordPress.com for free and get a website address of something like yoursite.wordpress.com or pay $18 a year for your own domain domain. Under Settings > Sharing > you can connect your WordPress website with various social networks including … Continue reading Automated Social Network Distribution of Content
$38 Per Year for Network Solutions Domain Registration — Unless You Threaten to Switch Companies
Take a look at the $75.98 fee below for two years of domain registration with Network Solutions. Click the image for a larger view. That's the fee they will charge if you have an automatic renewal configured on your domain names, or if you manually go through and use the shopping cart. However, if you … Continue reading $38 Per Year for Network Solutions Domain Registration — Unless You Threaten to Switch Companies
WordPress.org Self Hosted Site Broken Links Images Not Showing Possible Solution Jetpack Photon
If you've enabled JetPack in your self-hosted WordPress website, and the Photon component is enabled, you may see broken link errors where images should be. Solution: Dashboard > JetPack > Settings > Photon > Disable.
WordPress.com Momentary Outage on 15 April 2014
A momentary outage was observed with WordPress.com and websites hosted through their service. For a few minutes, the site was unavailable. This may be related to some updating that's been done recently across the entire WordPress platform (including self hosted sites). In recent days self hosted sites are being updated automatically to version 3.8.3 to … Continue reading WordPress.com Momentary Outage on 15 April 2014
Advice for those wanting a simple website
I'm often approached by people wanting to get started with a fairly basic website. Here's the general advice I offer... Although I create websites for people, my preferred role is that of a trainer and facilitator. As a website is created, hopefully I can train the site owner during the process. I want the site … Continue reading Advice for those wanting a simple website
WordPress.org Self-Hosted Website Setup Instructions
These instructions provide a guide to setting up a self hosted WordPress website. These instructions are abbreviated and assume some familiarity with WordPress. The process is broken into various phases. Phase 1 - Basic Setup Domain Name. If you are moving to a new host, one option is to purchase a domain name with an … Continue reading WordPress.org Self-Hosted Website Setup Instructions
Explained: Mysterious Spam Comments on WordPress.com Posts
Introduction I've been receiving random mysterious spam comments on my various WordPress.com website posts. Generally, the comments are something like this: Heya are employing Word press for your web site system? I'm a novice to the weblog community but I'm hoping to get set and started up my very own.Do you need any programming information to … Continue reading Explained: Mysterious Spam Comments on WordPress.com Posts
Moderating Groups and Followers on Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and Other Social Networks
Summary This page offers a few suggestions for managing group memberships and Facebook followers. Friends, Members, Likes On Facebook, there are different terms for people making connections. A person-to-person connection is a friend. Someone joining a group is a member. People connecting to pages are likes. Managing all of these connections requires a similar level … Continue reading Moderating Groups and Followers on Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, and Other Social Networks
Network Solutions Hosting Uptime Reliability Guarantee Misleading
Network Solutions advertises a 99.99% Uptime Guarantee. A consumer reading that guarantee will assume that it is a guarantee about their own personal website uptime. However, that uptime statistic is based on an average for thousands of accounts. The individual customer experience can vary widely. It's like giving a nation-wide weather report based on the aggregated … Continue reading Network Solutions Hosting Uptime Reliability Guarantee Misleading